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EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… occurred at two electrical power stations in the Eastern Transvaal, causing several millions Rands worth of damage. MK …
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… later, an act was introduced in which all Indians in the Transvaal were required to carry a pass. Under Gandhi's …
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… and republics - Cape Colony, Natal (now kwaZulu Natal), Transvaal and Orange Free State (now Free State) - together …
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba was born in Boksburg, Transvaal. He left for Paris to further his studies in 1938. …
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… 1899 and was the result of the British annexation of the Transvaal, soon after gold had been discovered in the region …
PlaceCurry's Post
… travellers - made this their stop en route to the old ‘Transvaal’ reef. The Curry’s Post of today is considered …
EventEmily Chinea is the first woman to be officially executed in SA
… topic: The first women to be executed in the Cape and Transvaal The first documented woman of the Cape to be hanged … woman to be condemned to death and…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… a piece of land for this masjid was acquired on September 03, 1859 by Imam Hadjie [d 1869 in Makkah], acting as a … also in several developed White centres…
69. ‘Moderate Indians’ form the Natal Indian Organisation
… Indian Organisation, was established. The Natal I. O. and Transvaal I.O. became affiliate members of this national … in the Indian community and to the…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… versus Baleka and Others. Supreme Court of South Africa. Transvaal Provincial Division. Record, in Department of … South Africa (Johannesburg: Ravan Press,…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… State and further north, across the Vaal River into the Transvaal region. In essence the frontier farmers believed … and, especially, the rich gold deposits …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… Branches are being established in various centres in the Transvaal, Cape Colony and Natal, and it has long passed the … the YCL fell into the background…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… and for the industrialisation of the country. They saw the Transvaal as ruled by a Republican government that … has declared war against the working class of…
Commemorating the 55th death anniversary of Suliman Saloojee
… 33). He was a legal clerk and a member of the renowned Transvaal Indian Congress and the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress. He was also a prominent …
EventThe Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor
… The University of Pretoria (UP), previously known as the Transvaal University College (TUKS) was founded in 1908, and …
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… of the republics of Natalia, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. Among the reasons for the trek was the general …
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… die." The right wing elements in the NP, especially in the Transvaal, resisted Botha's suggestion and for some years the …
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… on the old Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. In 1951, the Bantu Authorities Act established a …
EventInterim report into the allegations of a “Third Force” by the Goldstone Commission is published
… supply of weapons to Inkatha. Senior Inkatha leader in the Transvaal, Themba Khoza, was also implicated in these …
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… labour which will be moved at a special congress of the Transvaal Agricultural Union in Pretoria on August 17. The …
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… formation of Union. Milner arrived at a compromise. The Transvaal and Orange Free State were allowed to have …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… Kadalie A new membership drive into rural areas of Natal, Transvaal, and the Orange Free State later in the same year …
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… touch them. Museums where we can learn about Rock Art The Transvaal Museum in Pretoria. The Johannesburg Rock Art …
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… the rank and file, or account for funds, etc." [53] At the Transvaal ANC conference in October 1957, the provincial … the Africanists moved a vote of no…
PlaceBoys High School, Pretoria
… the government of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (later Transvaal) in central Pretoria. This school was not in …
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… the UDF, and women's organisations like the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) were UDF affiliates and sought not …
EventLinguist and educationist Sedumedi Moloto is born
… of schools. In the latter capacity he served the Western Transvaal from Krugersdorp in the east to Supingstad near …
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… accepted the position of assistant palaeontologist at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria. It was there that he began to …
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… and non-violent campaigns left the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal (now known as the Gauteng Province). After being …
Introduction
… in the agitation, set loose by whites first in Natal and Transvaal, and soon afterwards in the Orange Free State and …